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Ancient Greece wasn't one large empire but a collection of smaller city-states. The term the
Greeks used was polis, which means city-state. A polis was bigger than a city but smaller
than a state. They were scattered throughout the Mediterranean area. Some were sea-ports
while others were more inland. The two most famous city-states were Athens and Sparta.
Although the people living in these city-states were all Greek, each city-state did different
things and had different beliefs. Lets examine these differences by looking at two citystates.
Sparta-